Active Lab Projects
NOTE: This link accesses the shared work space for the ACT on Alzheimer's collaborative.
To reach the public website, please go to www.ACTonALZ.org.
Resource Links and Background Information
- Alzheimer's Association 2013 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures Report
- Wall Street Journal: "New Push for Early Testing, Treatment for Dementia"
- Listen. Honor. Guide. LifeCourse, tpt and Allina Health
- Alzheimer’s Disease, Minnesota Department of Health: Report to the Minnesota Legislature, January 31, 2013 (Quality Measures)
- Resources for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia & Intellectual Disabilities
- Caregiving for People with Dementia and Intellectual Disabilities, including Down Syndrome
MN Medicine January 2013 Articles:
- Caring for the Caregiver
- Cultivating conversations
- Empowering Older Adults to Manage Chronic Conditions and Reduce their Risk for Falls
- Facilitating Care Transitions for Older Adults
- Geriatrician in Chief
- In the Comfort of Home
- Three Stories, Three Outcomes
- Using Dementia as the Organizing Principle when Caring for Patients with Dementia
- What the VA Can Teach Us About Geriatric Care
- Senate Aging Special Alzheimer's Report December 2012: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: A Comparison of International Approaches
- World Alzheimer's Report 2012: Overcoming the stigma of dementia.
- Briefing Document: Early ID of Alzheiemr's disease
- Breifing Document: Health and Health Care
- Briefing Document: Communities and Caregivers
- Briefing Document: Research
- Briefing Document: Quality Health Care
- Alzheimer's disease facts and figures (Minnesota specific)
- Glossary of Terms related to Alzheimer's Disease
- For information relating to ADWG and related activity.
- Background Article from SSIR regarding Collective Impact
- Dementia Capable Communities
- Abstract: Caregiver and Noncaregiver's Attitude Toward Dementia Screening
- Caregiver Items in State Plans
- ND Dementia Care Services Project
- Capacity to Care Caregiver Awareness Campaign
- Creative Brief Identification
- Creative Brief Action
- Addressing the Ethical, Policy and Social Challenges of Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease
- Out of the Shadows
- Stigma Reduction Literature Review
- Challenging Public Stigma: A Taregeted Approach (Watson)
- Stigma by association and Alzheimer's Disease (Werner)
- Economic evaluation of the impact of memantine on time to nursing home admission in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
- 2011 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures
- Opinion NYT: How Medicare Fails the ElderlyNutritional intervention helps in mild Alzheimer's disease
- Nutritional intervention helps in mild Alzheimer's disease
- Association of Alzheimer disease pathology with abnormal lipid metabolism: The Hisayama Study
- Glucose tolerance status and risk of dementia in the community: The Hisayama Study
- Living with Dementia and Making Decisions
- Caregiving Costs; Declining Health in the Alzheimer’s Caregiver as Dementia Increases in the Care Recipient
- Alzheimer’s Association Market Research 2011 (power point)
- Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work (January 26th article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- 2012 Alzheimer's Disease Fact and Figures
- Alzheimer's Reource Information (Learning Center Format)
